Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Discover Your Calling! With Ryan Blair Founder Of AlterCall
28 Jan 2025
How can I recognize miracles in my life?
Now, the way that we do that might be by being a great mother or a great father or a great citizen or a politician or a business person. And the objective is to leave wisdom behind in such a way that the world is a better place because you were in it.
And so when you really simplify what a purpose is and you start to think about it in such a simplistic way, then you can challenge yourself each and every single day to just further your purpose, to contribute to the life of another person, to spread some light into someone else's life.
And when you do that over enough days in a row, eventually you accumulate such goodwill that it'll be easy for you to live on purpose each and every single day.
That is a beautiful thing. And I know it's something so many people are searching for today. I was looking on your Instagram and I saw you speaking about the power of forgiveness and how it impacted your life. And it really resonated with me. And I was hoping you could share that story.
Yeah, well, I'm a Christian, and so my spiritual hero is Jesus, and he taught three things. He taught forgiveness, he taught love, and he taught God's law. And, you know, I never really understood the power of forgiveness. I could understand love, like, okay, I get it. We should have love, love thy neighbor, love each other. But, like, why do I need to learn this forgiveness thing?
And then it dawned on me that I could not fully love forgiveness. unless I could fully forgive. And that the other half of love, you know, everything is a double-edged sword. There's a negative pole and a positive pole. The other half of love is forgiveness. And forgiving ourselves means we love ourselves. Forgiving others means we love ourselves.
our neighbor as ourselves, and that, you know, that we truly love human beings. And being a spiritual person means we have two types of love. We have love for humanity and we have love for God. And in order to do that, we have to have forgiveness. And we have to seek forgiveness and give forgiveness as effortlessly and easily as we do pray. And so forgiveness is a is a very important modality.
It's one that I remind myself each and every single day and one that I teach even to my son who's 13 years old. I share with him often. I say, is there anything that you need to forgive me for? Because you know what? I'm a human being. And as a father, I make mistakes all day long. And forgiveness is an opportunity to clear a channel between another individual.
And until you actually exercise forgiveness among each other, that channel will become distorted or blocked or it won't be a pure channel. So the more you forgive each other, the more you exercise forgiveness, the clearer the channel is between the two human beings and the brighter the light that can shine between them.
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